07-15-41 Adjourned Special
1756-A
COUNCIL CHAMBER
JUl.Y 15, 1941
THE COUNCIl. CONVENED IN ADJOURNED SPECIAl. SESSION AT
AS A BOARD OF EQUAl.IZATION, WITH THE FOl.l.OWING MEMBERS PRESENT:
MR. MILLER, MR. SABATH, AND MR. SCOTT. MR. HIl.l. WAS ABSENT.
9:30 A.M.
MR. JACIlBS,
THE FOl.l.OWING PERSONS APPEARED TO lNSPECT THE ROLl., AND
MR. WUEPPER THOUGHT THE BUILDINGS l.OCATED ON LOTS 5 & 6, Bl.OCK
tOO, SHOUl.D BE REDUCED IN VAl.UE.
MR. CRUMBl.ISS APPEARED, ENQUIRING ABOUT HIS VAl.UATION, AND THE
PROBABl.E MIl.l.AGE LEVY, BUT MADE NO COMPl.AINT AS TO SAME.
MR. PINCKNEY AND J.A. ZEDER ASKED THAT THE l.AND VAl.UE BE
REDUCED ON THE CAMP GROUND PROPERTY. MR. ZEDER Al.SO ASKED THAT THE
VAl.UE OF HIS VACANT l.OTS IN Bl.OCK 62 BE REDUCED, STATING HE WOUl.D BE
Gl.AD TO SEl.l. SAME FOR $500.00.
MRS. MABEL BROWN COMPr.:&INED THAT HER TAXES HAD BEEN STEADIl.Y
RAISED FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS AND SHE FEl.T THAT NO FURTHER ADVANCE
WAS DUE.
JOE GWYNN THOUGHT THE VACANT l.OT NORTH OF Hie HOME WAS ASSESSED
TOO HIGH AT $500.00.
MR. C. Y. BYRD ENQUIRED AS TO HIS OWN PROPERTY AND THAT OF C.L.
LABolTEAUX, BUT ENTERED NO OBJECTION THERETO.
OR. LOVE ENQUIRED AS TO BOTH HIS RESIDENCE AND TO HIS BUSINESS
PROPERTIES IN BLOCK 93 AND 92, AND AGREED THAT THEY SEEMED EQUITABLE.
HARRY MORGAN AND AARON SMOCK COMPl.AINED THAT THEIR PROPERTIES
IN BLOCK 74 WERE ASSESSED TOO HIGH IN COMPARISON TO THE BETTER RESIDENCES
ACROSS T HE STREET IN Bl.OCK 66.
MR. A.R. KENSl.AR THOUGHT HIS PROPERTY IN Bl.OCK 65 WAS A LITTl.E
TOO HIGH, Al.SO THE l.AND VAl.UATION Pl.ACED ON HIS PROPERTY IN THE SOPHIE FREY
SUBDIVISION.
As ON THE PREV IOUS DAY, Al.l. COMPl.A 1_ WERE INFORMED THAT THE"I R
PROPERTIES WOULD BE INVESTIGATED AND THAT THEY WOULD BE NOTIFIED OF THE
BOARD'S DECISION.
THERE BEING NO
SECONDED AND CARRIED THAT
DAT AT 9:30 A.M.
OTHER COMPl.AINTS TO BE HEARD, TT WAS REGUl.ARl.Y MOVED,
THE BOARD ADJOURN TO MEET AGAIN THE FDl.l.OWING
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